What is the most patriotic coin?
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While I think the Buffalo Nickel is the most American coin, the most patriotic coin is another matter. My vote is the Connecticut State Quarter.
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Why did you choose the Connecticut quarter? My thinking is the Connecticut commemorative half dollar.
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Actually, I was thinking of circulating coinage. But including commemorative coins I wouldn't disagree with you.
1792 Half Disme, of course.
Yes, for current circulating coins yours is an excellent choice. Perhaps too would be the New York State quarter. Remember what PCGS (Thanks Mitch!) did with the 911 labels for a select few of the NY quarters adds an extra level of patriotism.
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The bicentennial quarter dollar.
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A Revolutionary War theme at a personal level is fitting.
Steel cent.
Also, it shows three Revolutionary War patriots who fought for our freedom.
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I like the steel cent. Never would have thought of that one.
I am partial to the New Jersey quarter, myself. The Revolution might have gone very sour if Washington hadn't crossed the Delaware.
Maybe the Continental Dollar or Fugio Cent?
Maybe Patriotism should have a contemporary component...in terms of its impact at the time.
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Have there been any updates on the theory that the Continental dollar was a fantasy piece made in Europe?
If true, that may limit it to the Fugio cent?
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I assumed the question was for circulating US coins but this commemorative coin is certainly very patriotic and the minute man holding his rifle depicted on this coin is a good example of how strongly the founding fathers thought that "the right to own and bear arms" was important enough to be included in the Bill of Rights.
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This:
While the coins named above are all worthy candidates, my selection would be the Walking Liberty Half...
Perhaps best described in the following....
According to Secretary McAdoo in his 1916 annual report,
"The design of the half dollar bears a full-length figure of Liberty, the folds of the Stars and Stripes flying to the breeze as a background, progressing in full stride toward the dawn of a new day, carrying branches of laurel and oak, symbolical of civil and military glory. The hand of the figure is outstretched in bestowal of the spirit of liberty. The reverse of the half dollar shows an eagle perched high upon a mountain crag, his wings unfolded, fearless in spirit and conscious of his power. Springing from a rift in the rock is a sapling of mountain pine, symbolical of America."
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This !!
I was 9 years old at the time of the bicentennial , it was a big deal to me . Growing up in Boston , walking the Freedom trail with my grandfather in the summer when I was out of school, seeing all the history of that era on foot in our walks, he had no drivers license and we walked everywhere, then getting a big square slice of pizza in the North end before we headed home . The run up to all the celebrations that summer went on for months . I liked all the bicentennial coins but the quarters were everywhere and I saved them whenever I could. I still save them from change to this day. Those quarters were minted in the hundreds of millions but they are almost invisible in an ocean of ugly state quarters now.edited to wonder how what I wrote wound up in that odd box in a different typeface
the susan bee tony dollar of course!!
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Does anyone remember the wagon train that started out from Oregon in 1975, bound for Philadelphia & Valley Forge in time for the Bicentennial? That summer, our family did a 40-day cross-country road trip that I still swear was the basis of National Lampoon's "Vacation" movie, right down to the "family truckster"! Anyway, we crossed paths with that wagon train several times on our trip, so, aside from the WLH, I can't think of anything more iconic "American" than the Bicentennial coins!
1776 Continental Dollar! Current, the Bicentennial Quarter. Please O Please after all the special interests have been placated....return that wonderful Drummer to the reverso of the Quarter as a standard. Impossible to improve on that Amazing design!!
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First thing that came to mind was the Bicentennial quarter.
But who really designed it. Was not aware of the dispute until seeing this post by RogerB in June:
Do you remember this from the Bicentennial coin design competition
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Here is what I posted back then with the images next to each other for comparison:
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I was not familiar with this controversy. I would have assumed it was a generic image issue also.
But when I searched "colonial drummer" on google images, could not find anywhere near the similarities that seem to appear between the stamp and the coin.
Unless there is some older image I missed that both could have been based on, there are a lot of comparable angles, positions, and styles that just don't match as close to any other images seen. There are some minor differences, most visible in the drumsticks. The rest seems a surprisingly close match. The stamp designer's claim in the letter might have been right.
Just try to find any other image nearly as close. Now seems to me much like the 1992 Olympic dollar baseball commemorative situation that @291fifth mentioned above (matched almost exactly one particular photo on a baseball card).
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The first coin to come to mind...
I'd have to agree that the stamp & coin designs look to be almost identical, and I wonder what the outcome of the complaint letter was......................
Whatever coin was flipped at the last Super Bowl, if you asked me...as Patriot goes. abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/super-bowl-li-coin-toss-45287425
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I agree with the Walking Liberty Half dollar as one of the coins best representing Patriotism.
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I'd throw my hat to the bicentennial quarter, though the bicentennial *everything* in 1976 got tiresome after the first 6 months... (The sestercentennial is coming up in only 9 years. I might actually make that...)
But I have an affection for the Franklin half. Not only was Ben a true patriot, but the Liberty Bell is uniquely American and one of the symbols of Liberty.
Not a coin, a medal, I've always been a Doolittle Raiders guy:
I would go with the Washington-Lafayette. You can't get more patriotic subject matter than that imo.
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Anything with George Washington on it.
Lt. George E. Dixon's twenty dollar gold piece found with his remains on the H.L. Hunley.
The Liberty Pole and Liberty Cap were prominent patriotic icons used throughout the American Revolution, when a Liberty Pole was raised in 1766 in celebration to repeal the Stamp Act, through Paul Revere's portrayal of Liberty with her Pole and Cap in many issues of the Royal American Magazine in 1774 and 1775, and countless depictions in books, broadsides, bibles, paintings, seals, and medals during the Revolution. The 1793 Liberty Cap cent embodies this patriotic revolutionary iconography, and the goal of an "incessant attention" to promote and preserve the ideology of Liberty.
The initial threats to Liberty were the Quasi and First Barbary Wars, where Congress authorized military action and raised money through the first federal tax stamps in an effort to revive the US Navy to fight and win these wars. The Heraldic Eagle reverse was a fiercely patriotic modification of the Great Seal that displayed the war-time defiance through the period the wars were fought.
Didn't he fight for the CSA? Wasn't he considered a traitor?
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I think any coin minted in 1792. That is the first year U.S. coins were minted, proving we were truly independent.